Re: [PATCH] clk: tegra: mark TEGRA210_CLK_DBGAPB as always on

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Peter De Schrijver
<pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:58:29AM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> On 06/03/17 08:38, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 05:56:49PM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> >> On 28/02/17 15:19, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
>> >>> This is needed to make the JTAG debugging interface work.
>> >>>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> ---
>> >>>  drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra210.c | 1 +
>> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >>>
>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra210.c b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra210.c
>> >>> index 9a2512a..708f5f1 100644
>> >>> --- a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra210.c
>> >>> +++ b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra210.c
>> >>> @@ -2680,6 +2680,7 @@ static void tegra210_cpu_clock_resume(void)
>> >>>   { TEGRA210_CLK_EMC, TEGRA210_CLK_CLK_MAX, 0, 1 },
>> >>>   { TEGRA210_CLK_MSELECT, TEGRA210_CLK_CLK_MAX, 0, 1 },
>> >>>   { TEGRA210_CLK_CSITE, TEGRA210_CLK_CLK_MAX, 0, 1 },
>> >>> + { TEGRA210_CLK_DBGAPB, TEGRA210_CLK_CLK_MAX, 0, 1 },
>> >>>   { TEGRA210_CLK_TSENSOR, TEGRA210_CLK_CLK_M, 400000, 0 },
>> >>>   { TEGRA210_CLK_I2C1, TEGRA210_CLK_PLL_P, 0, 0 },
>> >>>   { TEGRA210_CLK_I2C2, TEGRA210_CLK_PLL_P, 0, 0 },
>> >>
>> >> Should there be some dependency on say CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL? I am not
>> >> sure we always want this on for all cases.
>> >
>> > Why would you not want it to be always on?
>>
>> Purely for power reasons. I do not know how much power keeping this
>
> I don't expect it to be significant but I don't have any numbers.
>
>> clock running consumes, but I don't like the idea of clocks running all
>> the time when they are not needed.
>
> Problem is that in this case there is no easy way to determine if the clock
> needs to be on.

I had a similar issue with SH-Mobile AG5, where the power domain containing
the JTAG interface is powered down.

[DEBUG] ARM: dts: sh73a0: Add minimal device node for Coresight-ETM
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8151511/

Want to debug? Apply patch. I know it's not ideal...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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